Dr. Daniel Merriman cataloging specimens on board Ellery Thompson's boat Eleanor (Stonington area)

Title supplied by cataloger. Dr. Daniel Merriman was Director of the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory at Yale University. He and co-workers Herbert E. Warfel and Jim Morrow collected specimens from Ellery Thompson's boat in the 1940s. This data supported marine survey reports on Long Island Sound fishery resources. (Citation: Ellery Franklin Thompson, Fisherman, Author; and Marine Painter / by Bernard Ludwig Gordon in The Log of Mystic Seaport, Fall 1989-Winter 1990, p. 101.) Mystic-born Ellery Thompson was a fisherman, artist and writer. He captained draggers out of Stonington for a number of years. Thompson was a local celebrity, noted for his paintings, storytelling and writings, which included Draggerman's Haul (1950) a memoir of his maritime adventures.